NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Zimbabwe have agreed to skip next year's T20 WC in England to end a stalemate with the International Cricket Council (ICC), Zimbabwe Cricket chairman Peter Chingoka told cricinfo Web site on Friday.

"We've decided to pull out in the larger interests of the game," Chingoka said in Dubai, where the ICC is meeting over calls to sanction the board of the troubled African country.

"We have been informed that the British government may not grant visas to our players and that situation may prevail during the T20 WC," Chingoka said. "We don't want to be gatecrashers."

The ICC executive board met for an extra third day on Friday to resolve the deadlock over Zimbabwe, which has lurched from one crisis to another in the last few years on and off the pitch.

Zimbabwe is expected to remain as one of the ICC's 10 full members, a status given to test-playing nations.

Cricket officials who hoped this week might end with one sort of resignation from the International Cricket Council (ICC) had to cope with another as Michael Holding quit its cricket committee.
The West Indies great stepped down in protest at the ICC's decision, taken at its board meeting in Dubai, to change the result of the 2006 Oval Test from an England win over Pakistan to a draw.

Strife-torn Zimbabwe will remain a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC), officials said on Friday, after the deeply-divided world body worked out a last-minute compromise.
However, Zimbabwe have pulled out of next year's T20 WC championships in England.

Former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd has succeeded Sunil Gavaskar as chairman of the cricket committee of the International Cricket Council (ICC), the governing body announced Thursday following a board meeting at its Dubai headquarters.
Lloyd, also a former ICC match referee, replaces India batting great Gavaskar, who stood down in May after eight years in the job amidst concerns the role was incompatible with his media commitments.

West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels's two-year corruption ban has been upheld by the International Cricket Council (ICC), the global governing body said in a statement issued after a board meeting here on Thursday.
Samuels, 27, was allegedly caught on tape by police passing match-related information on to a bookmaker during a series in India in February last year.

Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq was pleased Thursday when the result of the infamous 2006 Oval Test was changed from forfeit to a draw, saying it justified his stance.
"I am happy and relieved, my stance is vindicated," he said, after the International Cricket Council (ICC) changed the result on the request of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) during its annual meeting.